This essay is drawn from published discussion. It cites classical Chinese books, the words of others, or academic argument, and is meant as cultural reading on the traditional cultivation of life. What it says about the body, and about what practice may do, belongs to the sources quoted or to the original speaker. It is not a medical promise or clinical advice from the people who operate this website.
Written by Hu Xiaofei on the eve of the New Year of 2021. The original says that this year the whole world was responding to COVID-19. Below are the items he listed. Readership figures are the numbers stated in the original.
In January, with the support of the China Wushu Academy of Beijing Sport University, he created Strengthening the Body and Assisting the Lungs Fitness Method. The original says it helps strengthen constitution and improve immunity, and is used to prevent novel coronavirus pneumonia and promote recovery after healing. This is the original’s wording. The practice was translated into English, German, and Spanish. Xinhua Net, Xuexi Qiangguo, People’s Daily Online, and the Beijing Sport University website released it; Xinhua’s readership exceeded 1.56 million. He also lectured for front-line doctors in Wuhan.
He created and released Children’s Ba Duan Jin. Xinhua Net, Xuexi Qiangguo, People’s Daily, People’s Daily Online, and the Beijing Sport University website released it; Xinhua’s readership exceeded 1.35 million. The China Sport Science Society included it in the “Health Package Popular-Science Materials Library.” A book was then about to be published by Beijing Sport University Press.
He released a performance video of Health Qigong · Daoyin Yangsheng Gong Twelve Methods. Xinhua Net, Xuexi Qiangguo, People’s Sports, and the Beijing Sport University website released it; Xinhua’s readership exceeded 1.51 million.
During the pandemic he did online public livestreams; themes included Health Qigong · Five Animal Frolics (Wu Qin Xi), Strengthening the Body and Assisting the Lungs Fitness Method, theory and methods for raising respiratory capacity, and a summer formula for benefiting the heart; the original writes the audience as more than five thousand. There were also six sets of public teaching videos: Children’s Ba Duan Jin, Ba Duan Jin, Strengthening the Body and Assisting the Lungs Fitness Method, He Wei Jian Pi Gong, Eighteen Soft-Body Forms, and Yangsheng Zhuji Gong.
Dispatched by the China Sport Science Society and funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, he taught at national-level exercise-prescription training. More than three hundred teachers, sport and health cadres, community doctors, family doctors, general practitioners, and oncology doctors from Shenzhen, Xiamen, and Shanghai took part. Also dispatched, he taught four sessions of national-level exercise-prescription training for the Jiangsu Health Commission and Sport Bureau; four hundred doctors took part. And he made five online courses for exercise-prescription practitioners for the society.
He first opened paid livestreams on DingTalk; courses included foundational Daoyin health practices and Daoyin health formulas for benefiting the heart in summer, moistening the lungs in autumn, difficult and complex conditions, and the like.
Invited by the British Taijiquan Centre, he taught Strengthening the Body and Assisting the Lungs Fitness Method online. Invited by the Russian Daoyin Yangsheng Association, he spoke on the principles, methods, and culture of the Twelve Methods. Invited by the German Daoyin Yangsheng Gong Center, he spoke on the technique and mechanism of Strengthening the Body and Assisting the Lungs Fitness Method.
Invited by the PLA General Hospital, his lecture title was “Appropriate Techniques and Exercise Prescription for Cardiac Rehabilitation—Daoyin for Heart Disease.” He took part in the textbook Exercise Prescription under the China Sport Science Society, published by People’s Education Press. The International Health Qigong Federation granted him status among the first International Class A referees in Health Qigong. People’s Sports Publishing House reprinted Warm-Up Before Practice for Sport and Cultivating Life, adding video and color plates. The original had words about ordering; they are not kept here.
Engaged by the Chinese Health Qigong Association and the International Health Qigong Federation, he gave global online public courses on “Aiding the Fight Against the Epidemic.” The ninth session spoke of the cultural connotations of the Twelve Methods; the tenth of the traits of regulating form in the Twelve Methods.
In cooperation with China United Insurance Company he developed Daoyin health prescriptions for hypertension, fall prevention, COPD, and the like. In cooperation with Cuihe under Tongrentang he brought exercise prescriptions into communities. After the pandemic eased, he taught older people in nursing homes, communities, and parks.
His student Han Xiaoming received a doctorate and entered a postdoctoral station at Tsinghua University. Together with Liu Ruiqi, former chairman of Hengyuanxiang and first honorary vice president of the International Wushu Federation, he jointly supervised postdoctoral fellow Wang Nan, whose topic opened on “Taiji and Lifestyle.” Five more doctoral and master’s students graduated and stayed in Beijing. The original counts that by then “Feiye Sport and Cultivating Life” had graduated seventy-five master’s and doctoral students and twenty-three senior visiting scholars from within China.
That year he turned sixty and retired from Beijing Sport University. The plan for the next year written at the time was to do training in “International Daoyin Health Prescriptions” together with practitioners everywhere. The invitation at the end for people to get in touch is not taken in here.